Alan E. Zuckerman
Georgetown University
15 Papers
177 Citations
Alan E. Zuckerman is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Risk factor & Health care. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications.
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Papers
A process evaluation of the District of Columbia "Know Your Body" project.
TL;DR: School health education programs need an intensive training component that will enable teachers to adopt behavioral teaching approaches, promote teacher's examination and change of their personal risk factors, and stress the classroom dynamic of teachers as role models.
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Family context as a predictor of individual medicine use
TL;DR: This analysis examines individual use of prescribed and nonprescribed medicines by placing the individual in his family context and shows that the set of family context variables is a better predictor of individual medicine use than theSet of individual characteristics.
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Comparison of Dietary Intake Methods with Young Children
Ronald J. Iannotti,Alan E. Zuckerman,Elaine M. Blyer,Robert W. O'Brien,Jeremy D. Finn,Diana Spillman +5 more
TL;DR: The questionnaire did not provide an accurate assessment of measured intake and could not replace the dietary recall, and there were significant differences in recalled intake for energy and percent of calories from saturated fat.
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A framework for assessing outcomes from newborn screening: on the road to measuring its promise ☆
Cynthia F. Hinton,Charles J. Homer,Alexis A. Thompson,Andrea Williams,Kathryn L. Hassell,Lisa Feuchtbaum,Susan A. Berry,Anne Marie Comeau,Bradford L. Therrell,Amy Brower,Katharine B. Harris,Christine Brown,Jana Monaco,Robert J. Ostrander,Alan E. Zuckerman,Celia I. Kaye,Denise Dougherty,Carol L. Greene,Nancy S. Green +18 more
TL;DR: A customizable outcomes framework for organizing measures for newborn screening condition-specific health outcomes, and an approach to identifying sources and challenges to populating those measures are presented.
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Cardiovascular risk factors among black schoolchildren: Comparisons among four know your body studies
Alan E. Zuckerman,Edna Olevsky-Peleg,Patricia J. Bush,Claire Horowitz,Frances R. Davidson,Delores G. Brown,Heather J. Walter +6 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that District of Columbia black children are more likely to have high cholesterol levels and to fail the fitness test than black children in the other studies, and the existence of children with multiple risk factors in all of the Know Your Body studies supports the need for early intervention.
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